Second meeting of the INTELed Teacher Professional Development Program

The second meeting of the INTELed Teacher Professional Development (TPD) program was organized anddelivered successfully by the INTELed CUT research team (Dr Andri Ioannou, Dr Yiannis Georgiou, MrsNicoletta Pantela, Dr Panayiotis Kosmas), on November 3rd 2018, at the Cyprus University of Technology. The meeting wasattended by 28 in-service primary education teachers, working with SEN students in various settings (mainstream classroom, special unit, special school).

The meeting began with a presentation by Dr Yiannis Georgiou (Postdoctoral researcher, Project manager) on embodied cognition theory, embodied learning pedagogical approach, and taxonomy of embodied learning technologies based on their affordances for sensorimotor activity, immersion, and gestural congruency with the learning content.

The meeting continued with a reflective activity during which the teachers were divided in groups; each group was asked to develop an integration scenario about one of the embodied learning games. As part of this activity the teachers had the opportunity to collaborate with other colleagues and share their ideas for an integration scenario, focusing on various aspects such as the classroom orchestration, the activity sequence as well as the inclusion of SEN children.